Non-refilling bottle



(No Mael.)

Patented Feb. 23,V 189'7.

JAMES D. SHOOTS, OF HORSEHEADS, NEW YORK.

NON-REFILLING BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 577,790, dated February 23, 1897.

Application filed March 18, 1896.

To all whom, t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, JAMES D. Snoo'rs, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing atHorseheads, in the county of Chem ung and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refilling Bottles, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in non-refilling bottles, and has for its object to provide such a device which after having been once filled and sealed and the contents drawn therefrom cannot again be filled Without detection.

Vith these ends in View my invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, and then specifically designated by the claim.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make andl use the same, I will describe its construction and operation in detail, referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciiication, and in which- Figure l is a side elevation of a bottle having my improvement applied thereto Fig. 2, a central vertical section thereof, and Fig. 3

a plan view of the sealing-cap.

IIeretofore considerable inconvenience and loss have been occasioned to a certain class of manufacturers and bottlers of liquids from the fact that after the original contents of a bottle have been used it has been refilled with an inferior liquid and used under the name of the original manufacturer with great detriment and financial loss to said manufacturer; but this difficulty l have entirely overcome by providing a seal which after the bottle has been illed the neck of the latter is forced into said seal, which has been previously supplied with a suitable cement, and thus secured so that its removal is impossible without its being iirst broken, effectually preventing the fraud which has heretofore taken place.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the bottle, and B the neck, which is provided with the large rounded iiange G at its top and a smaller rounded one I just below, the two flanges being separated by the groove J,

Serial No. 583,002. (No model.)

in which the sealing material catches. After the bottle is filled it is closed, as usual, by the stopper C. Over the stopper is placed a glass cup-shaped seal D, having a depression E formed around its circumference for the purpose of facilitating its being sealed over the cork; and this is accomplished by partly iilling thecnp with any suitable material, such as plaster-of-paris, roclecement, sulfur and sand, or fusible metal in a pliable state, and forcing the cap over the cork and mouth of the bottle and permitting the sealing material to set. When this has been accomplished, the depression formed in the cap will prevent its withdrawal, and the radial shape of the neck of the bottle will insure the sealing compound retaining a iirm hold thereon. In practice the name of the manufacturer or bottler of the liquid is blown or otherwise formed upon 'the glass cap, or

it may be printed upon the label and this pasted upon the inside of the cap, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, so as to be legible through the glass, and as the cork cannot be removed until the seal has been broken it will be obvious that when this has once been done it will be impossible to reiillthe bottle with an inferior liquid and represent it to be the original brand unless the seal be replaced, which will not be possible, as each manufacturer will have his own seal and label. This construction has a still further advantage in that the bottle is in no wise injured by the breaking of the seal, but can be returned and reused by the manufacturer by substituting a new seal for the one previously broken.

The particular sealing compound which is used to unite the seal of the bottle forms no part of my invention, as any suitable compound for this purpose maybe used, the only requisite being that'it shall, when set, be proof against alteration at temperatures .underthe melting-point of the cap.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful is 9 In a non-reillable bottle, the bottle provided With a neck B, having two flanges G, I, around its top edge, and the groove J, between the flanges, combined with a glass cap D having an inwardly-formed groove or crimp IOO E near its loWer edge and which groove or fixed my signature in the presence of t-Wo subermp forms a corresponding Hang@ or prosorbng Witnesses. jeeon on the inner side of the Cap to catch i in the filling; and a flllng of suitable mate- JAMES D' SHOOTS' 5 rial placed in the cap around the cork and Witnesses:

upper end of Jhe neelgsubstantially as shown. S. S. VILLIAMSON,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto af- M. L. CARPENTER. 

